Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gregory Hines

My roots are on the live performing stage, so while I enjoy making films and the other things that I do, when I get on stage, I feel at home; I'm comfortable.

Alexander Payne

The most heinous shift in American films is that they reinforce good things like 'couples' and 'relationships.'

Alexander Payne

I'm so not interested in producing, other than doing my own work, producing my own films. I only do it as favors, for other people to get their films made.

Mads Mikkelsen

When I was a kid, I wasn't looking at the small-budget films myself. I was looking at 'James Bond' and all the major films, so I still have that energy. I still love those films.

Zach Braff

They put all this money into these huge films and then no one goes to see them. That sort of shows they're out of touch. Then everyone in town passes on my little movie and it does really well.

Ira Sachs

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

Ira Sachs

I've made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I'm no longer interested in that subject - which is a wonderful relief.

Nico Mirallegro

I love film, and I think it's so important for kids to be educated about films and real life subjects that films cover.

Luke Evans

In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but not in cinema.

I understand working-class culture, tribalism and the ethos of violence, so I make films about these things.

Neil Marshall

'Raiders of the Lost Ark' made me want to make films. I am wild about the films of John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah.

Rachel Weisz

I'm very successful and do lots of films but I've never actually done anything extraordinary.

Richard King

I like the fact that major studios have been attempting horror films recently.

Ranbir Kapoor

I feel old films should not be remade.

Robert Schwentke

There are very few films that work like a novel.

Emilia Fox

I met Jack Nicholson when I was about 10 at a party of my uncle's, and it wasn't so much that I knew his films because I was small, but he wore sunglasses inside at night and I thought that must mean he was very important and was suitably star struck by his charismatic presence.

John Cassavetes

People have said that my films are very difficult to watch, that they're experiences you are put through rather than ones you enjoy, and it's true.

Gwendoline Christie

Terry Gilliam is someone I'd always deeply admired. I saw his films when I was a child.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

Mark Burnett

Look at the top films of the past 20 years, and a number of them are not from America. It's an incredible second chance.

Dan Gilroy

I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.

Cary Fukunaga

'Jane Eyre' was one of those films that I was familiar with as a kid, and I always enjoyed the story.

Gael Bernal

I think that films are very transparent in that sense and they really portray the journey that that society is going through.

Francis Coppola

I think it was more like the original Francis before The Godfather who just wanted to make personal films and use sensible-sized crews and equipment.

I think this is the year of the smaller films with independent spirits.

I think that's terrific that independent films are getting more and more mainstream press.

Dirk Benedict

It is marketing that makes films popular. Cross-marketing. Selling movies with hamburgers and Coke.

Anthony Minghella

It is my well. I always go to Italian films to be replenished.

Jonas Armstrong

I was always interested in films and thought that was the path I should go down, but I didn't start pursuing acting until I was 17.

Damien Chazelle

Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.

Judi Dench

I think that there are more films being made with more, you know ... American-English (collaboration) ... It's a pity there's that not that interchange, we can do it so easily,

Gale Anne Hurd

I've always loved comic books, which is why I've done films like 'Hulk' and 'The Punishers.'

Martin Freeman

There are still things technically about films that I think are a mystery to me and I want to remain a mystery. I don't particularly want to know what everyone's job is because I've got lines to learn.